<snipped, saved, thank you>
Chack back with me if it says it can't upgrade. :) I haven't done a 95 any version install in quite a while!
From a floppy boot....
Rename win.com (kills the *not able to upgrade* rubbish)
Start setup
Use a OEM #
Choose windows rather than the offered windows.000 folder.
Reboot, wait, force quit, wait for disk scan (I removed the win95 cd as instructed which caused the force quit), watch as it half configures itself, reboot, do some more little configs, reboot, Desktop! :)
Copy everthing to the new drive, xcopy C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r, shutdown and reconfig the hdd's.
Desktop!
Lost the sound card drivers, gone. After choosing not to upgrade any conflicting *newer* file during the update I had to remove and reinstall tcp from my network devices, I could dial up but had no web.
The Startup group files required retargeting from D:\ once the old drive, now the slave, was formatted in win32.
Apart from the IE icons reverting to version 3 everthing else is running very well.
The old boy was very happy going from 8mb ram, 1.2gb drive (old seagate) and 95a/IE3 to 64mb, 4.3gb fujitsu + the cleaned and reformatted seagate, 95b/IE5.5. I was rather impressed with the difference. I've offered to replace the mobo ect but he hasn't used computer since punch cards and thinks its plenty fast for his use. :)
The lot cost $60 or us$43.
Thanks for the replies, I hope the thread helps someone else revive a doorstop for a old newbie or aids you upgrading your hardfiles from win16.
Heres a site I leached, hard to read but may be of use to we who emulate win3.x. http://www.oldos.org/files/driverbootdisk.php and others?
Cheers
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